Maryland Imprints of the Colonial Period, 1689-1776

8vo. A⁴, B², C⁴, apparently; actually is A-B⁴, C²; 10 leaves, pages unnumbered.
Leaf measures: 7| x 51/4 inches. Type page, p. [2], including borders: 152 x 80 mm.
For explanation of collation, see note to this title under 1761.
LC.

253. The Maryland Gazette.| (Jan. 5-Dec. 27, 1764, Nos. 974-1025; beginning with April
I9th, change in heading from XlXth to XXth Year.) [Colophon, as in Nos. 911-919 in
1762, except No. 1025, which is as in 920 and 921, 1762.]

14 x 91/4 inches; three columns; two leaves each number except No. 1025, which has one leaf.

Nos. 991,994, 1001, 1003,1007, and 1010 have "Supplement" of one leaf each.

For title arrangment, see Plate Xa.

MdHS. (one copy complete except that it lacks "Supplement" to 1001, and another copy which lacks this
"Supplement" as well as No. 1025 and second leaf of No. 1024.) MDSL. (complete.)

1765

254. BACON, THOMAS. Laws | of | Maryland | at Large,| with proper | Indexes.] Now first
Collected into One Compleat Body, and Published from the | Original Acts and Records,
remaining in the Secretary's-| Office of the said | Province. | Together with Notes and other
Matters, relative to the Con-) stitution thereof, extracted from the Provincial Records.|
To which is prefixed, The | Charter,| With an English Translation.| By Thomas Bacon,
Rector of All-Saints Parish in | Frederick County, and Domestic Chaplain in Maryland
to | the Right Honourable Frederick Lord Baltimore.] [Provincial Arms, Signed, T. Spar-
row, sculp.] Annapolis:| Printed by Jonas Green, Printer to the Province.| MDCCLXV.|

Fol. [aj-f², g¹, A-Z⁴, Aa-Zz⁴, Aaa-Zzz⁴, Aaaa-Hhhh⁴, Iiii², A-Y², z¹; 368 leaves; pages unnumbered; [ai] recto:
title; [&2 recto]: dedication, "To the Right Honourable Frederick,.... Lord Baron of Baltimore, &c..... [signed]
Thomas Bacon"; bi recto-[ba verso]: "Preface", with list of subscribers at end; [ci recto]: half-title, The | Char-
ter | of the | Province | of | Maryland.|; [ci verso]-gi recto: text of Charter, Latin on each verso, English transla-
tion on each recto; Ai recto-[Iiii2] verso: text of laws, 1637-1763, each session with session heading, running heads;
AI recto-ui recto: "Index: or, an Alphabetical Abridgment of the Laws of Maryland: With References to the
Acts at Large, as contained in the foregoing Collection"; [u2 recto]-[Y2 verso]: "Index to Private, Parochial, and
Town Laws"; [zi recto]: "Advertisement", consisting of one page of errata.

Leaf measures: 15 3/4 x 9 3/4 inches. Leaf measures, large paper edition: 16 1/4 x 10 1/4 inches. Type page, d 1 recto:
272 x 148 mm.

For full history of this work, see Chapter Eight in foregoing narrative. For photographic reproduction of the
title-page, see Plate IX. Although the printing was completed in 1765, it was not published probably until Aug.
1766. Announcement that purchases were now to be made through Mr. Lancelot Jacques was published in
Maryland Gazette for Aug. 21, 1766.

MDHS. MDSL. MDioc. PL LC. HSP. NYPL. NYHS. NYBA. and in many public and private libraries.

255. [DULANY, DANIEL, JR.] Considerations | on the | Propriety | of imposing | Taxes | in the |
British Colonies,| for the Purpose of raising a Revenue, by | Act of Parliament.| —Haud
Totum Verba resignent | Quod latet arcana, non enarrabile, fibra. | North-America:
Printed by a North-American.| MDCCLXV.| [Annapolis: Printed by Jonas Green. 1765.]

Sm. 4to. [A]-G⁴; 28 leaves; pages [i]~55, [56]; p. [i]: title; pp. 3-4: "Preface", with head-piece, and "Virginia,
August 12,1765", at end; pp. 5-48: text, with head-piece and heading, "Considerations &c."; pp. 49~55: "Appen-
dix", with head-piece; p. 55: "The End".

Leaf measures: 7 7/8 x 6 1/16 inches. Type page, p. 6: 147 x 112 mm.

For photographic reproduction of title-page, see Plate VI.

In the Maryland Gazette for Thursday, Oct. 10, 1765, Jonas Green announced that a pamphlet bearing this
title would be published, and gave at the same time a description of the forthcoming publication which aids con-
siderably in identifying the copy above described as being one of the edition which he advertised in these words,
the earliest known reference to Dulany's celebrated work: "Next Monday, will be Sold, at this Printing-Office, a

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